“Climate change and sea level rise are deadly, existential threats to Tuvalu and low-lying atoll countries,” the country’s Minister for Justice, Communication and Foreign Affairs, Simon Kofe, told an international delegation at COP26. “We are sinking, but so is everyone else.” The first ...
"As our land disappears, we have no choice but to become the world’s first digital nation," said Tuvalu's foreign minister Simon Kofe in a speech to the COP27 climate summit, delivered against the backdrop of a digital island. "Our land, our ocean, our culture are the most precious ...
Last year, Tuvalu Foreign Minister Simon Kofe sought to underscore how vulnerable the country is to global heating by delivering his speech to the COP26 conferencewhile standing knee-deep in the ocean.
“We are looking at setting up the world’s first digital nation because we are facing the real risk of our land disappearing,” said Tuvalu’s foreign minister Simon Kofe, standing knee-deep in water while addressing the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP26) in 2021. Digital ...
"We are sinking": Tuvalu minister gives climate speech knee-deep in the sea Kofe grabbed global attention at last year’s COP26 when he addressed the conference standing knee-deep in the sea to illustrate how Tuvalu is on the front line of climate chang...